The Senior UI/UX Engineer will support the Chinook Program for an Intelligence Community customer, designing and engineering modern, responsive, accessible user interfaces for mission-critical applications in a collaborative Agile environment.
Role Summary
This position focuses on translating mission workflows and functional requirements into UI/UX solutions. The engineer will lead interface design and implementation efforts, apply user-centered design principles to simplify complex workflows, build interactive prototypes for stakeholder validation, and provide technical mentorship to less-experienced engineers.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and engineering of modern, intuitive, and responsive user interfaces for mission-critical applications.
- Translate user needs, mission workflows, and functional requirements into effective UI/UX solutions.
- Collaborate with product owners, UX/UI designers, software engineers, systems engineers, and mission stakeholders across the development lifecycle.
- Develop reusable UI components, patterns, and design standards to support consistency and maintainability across the program.
- Apply user-centered design principles to simplify complex workflows and improve usability.
- Build and refine interactive prototypes and proof-of-concept interfaces to validate concepts with stakeholders.
- Partner with software engineering teams to ensure designs are implemented accurately, efficiently, and with appropriate performance considerations.
- Evaluate existing interfaces and identify improvements for usability, accessibility, responsiveness, and overall user experience.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including PI Planning, backlog refinement, sprint planning, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
- Contribute to technical discussions and help establish UI/UX engineering best practices, standards, and patterns.
- Collaborate with test engineers to ensure UI functionality and user workflows are thoroughly validated.
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to less-experienced engineers.
- Support continuous improvement of the program’s UI/UX capabilities and development processes.
Required Qualifications
- US citizenship is required per contract.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field with 8 to 12 years of prior relevant experience; or Master’s with 6 to 10 years of prior relevant experience.
- Active Top Secret/SCI with the ability to successfully pass a Polygraph examination.
- Strong experience developing modern web-based user interfaces and user experiences.
- Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python.
- Experience with modern UI frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue.js, or Django.
- Demonstrated understanding of responsive design, component-based development, and modern front-end engineering practices.
- Experience translating complex requirements and user workflows into intuitive interface solutions.
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum or SAFe environment.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to work through complex technical and user-experience challenges.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI and Jenkins, and agile collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
- Familiarity with cloud environments such as AWS (C2S or GovCloud) and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Understanding of secure coding practices and government system accreditation processes (e.g., RMF, STIGs).
Technologies
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript
- Python, React, Angular, Vue.js, Django
- GitLab CI, Jenkins
- JIRA, Confluence
- AWS (C2S or GovCloud), Docker, Kubernetes
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting Intelligence Community, DoD, or other mission-focused government programs.
- Experience working on applications involving complex data visualization, geospatial information, intelligence workflows, or mission systems.
- Experience with React and TypeScript and modern front-end development tooling.
- Experience developing or consuming RESTful APIs and integrating UI applications with backend services.
- Experience with design systems, reusable component libraries, and UI standards.
- Familiarity with Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, or similar UX/UI design tools.
- Experience with accessibility standards such as Section 508/WCAG.
- Experience developing dashboards, data visualization, maps, or highly interactive mission interfaces.
- Experience working in a cloud-based environment, particularly AWS.
- Experience with automated UI testing and tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or equivalent.
- Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership within a multidisciplinary Agile team.
Clearance Requirements
- Active Top Secret/SCI with the ability to successfully pass a Polygraph examination.
Location
Position may be performed in the following locations. Gaithersburg, MD is the program’s primary work location: Gaithersburg, MD; Alexandria, VA; Chantilly, VA; Englewood, CO; St. Louis, MO; Tucson, AZ.
Compensation
Pay Range: USD 107,900 - 195,050 per year (Pay Range: $107,900.00 - $195,050.00).
Benefits
- Health and Wellness programs
- Income Protection
- Paid Leave
- Retirement
Posting Date
Original posting: August 21, 2026.
